CAUSES
AND CONDITIONS
WHEN
we realize that life is
not fundamentally physical, but mental
and spiritual, it will not be hard for
us to see that by a certain mental and
spiritual process we can demonstrate what
we want.
We
are not dealing with conditions but with
causes. Causes originate only from the
unseen side of life. This is not strange
as the same might be said of electricity,
or even of life itself. We do not see
life, we only see what it does. This we
call a condition. Of itself it is simply
an effect. We are living in the outer
world of effects and the inner world of
causes. These causes we set in motion
by our thought, and, through the power
inherent within the cause, expresses the
thought as a condition. It follows that
the cause must be equal to the effect
and that effect always evaluates with
the cause held in mind. Everything comes
from One Substance, and our thought qualifies
that Substance and determines what is
to take place in our life.
The
whole teaching of the Bhagavad Gita
is that there is but One and that becomes
to us just what we first believe into
it. In other words we manifest the unmanifested.
This in no way takes away from the omnipotence
of God, but adds to it, for He has created
something that is able to do this. God
still rules the Universe, but we are given
the power to rule our lives.
We
must realize, then, absolutely that we
are dealing with a Substance that we have
a right to deal with, and by learning
its laws we will be able to subject them
to
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